The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 132
When the Teacher had thus related this parable, he assumed the prerogative of One Supremely Enlightened and uttered the following stanza:
Who acts: Teacher, prerogative · What happens: relate, assume, enlighten, utter, follow · To what, where: parable, prerogative, One, stanza
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Teacher, prerogative), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 related | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 related | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 related | aux |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 related | advmod |
| 6 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 assumed | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 parable | det |
| 8 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 related | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 related | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assumed | nsubj |
| 11 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prerogative | det |
| 13 | prerogative | prerogative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assumed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 Enlightened | mark |
| 15 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Enlightened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | Supremely | supremely | ADV | _ | 17 Enlightened | advmod |
| 17 | Enlightened | enlighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 prerogative | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 uttered | cc |
| 19 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Enlightened | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stanza | det |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 stanza | case |
| 22 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 uttered | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past · perfect | the Teacher | this parable | thus property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parable=Theme | |||
| 2 | assume | past | Teacher | the prerogative | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prerogative=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enlighten | participle · passive | the prerogative not said here | One | supremely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | the prerogative not said here | the stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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